More than 100 people, including ex-ministers from different portfolios, former directors of different entities (such as National Planning – DNP -, Mining-Energy Planning Unit, the Energy and Gas Regulation Commission, the Superintendence of Public Services, the Superintendence of Finance) and leaders of mixed economy companies, sent a letter to the national government in which warn about the importance of making the required changes in public services, but “without destroying the institutions and the rules of the game“.
Among the signatories are former ministers Mauricio Cárdenas, Rudolf Hommes, Juan Carlos Echeverry and José Manuel Restrepo, Jorge Humberto Botero, María Mercedes Cuéllar, Tomás González, María Lorena Gutiérrez, María Fernanda Suárez, Juan Camilo Restrepo, Luis Carlos Valenzuela, Carlos Caballero, Carolina Barco, Luis Ernesto Mejía, Diego Mesa; and the former directors of the DNP Alejandra Botero and Armando Montenegro.
In the letter they add that legal uncertainty could slow down investments and “lead us to repeat mistakes of the past that can end in a blackout“.
defense of services
Specifically, the letter is addressed to President Gustavo Petro and his cabinet, to the president of Congress, Roy Barreras, and the congressmen; and to the presidents of the Constitutional Courts, the Supreme Court and the Council of State, Diana Fajardo, Fernando Castillo and Jaime Enrique Rodríguez, respectively.
The signatory former officials assure that in the last 30 years they have served the country, “each contributing from different governments and in different situations to the construction and strengthening of public services in Colombia“.
BRIEFCASE
